The Sword of Somplak
Crocodiles

The mangosteen Ucup understood it. Shortly after, he decided to continue his journey with Diamond and Jane. Not a word came out of his mouth during the trip. Only the clattering of steps and the roaring of breath were clearly heard from the three.

The situation in the forest was very quiet and silent, not a single sound of animals usually occupying the forest, as if all three were stepping inside a world without inhabitants. It is ironic to be in a place that should be a paradise for animals and monster beasts that occupy it but are not visible even though the inhabitants.

Long enough the three walked on the roots that crept over the ground. Some time later, Ucup's steps came to a halt. His eyes looked around him, but nothing suspicious was found. However, his instincts were very strong to sniff out the irregularities within the forest.

“What's up, Brother? Brother Ucup looks so restless,” usik Diamond wants to know.

Ucup glanced at him then slowly shook his head and said, “Nothing.”

The diamond looked at him full of sightseeing. He saw something hidden by Ucup, of course not his favorite monster fish, but he just silently did not want to know more. The next few steps heard a groaning sound from the direction of the increasingly clear front. Ucup, Diamond, and Jane immediately rushed up to him. How shocked they were once to arrive and see a terrifying scene unfolding before them. The three people they knew now left scattered body parts everywhere.

“We're late,” grunts Ucup, weaned.

“Kasian,” says Diamond gazing at the three dead.

Jane was the opposite. He seemed so satisfied to see the three men who had killed his family died so horribly. 

“Kak Ucup, look there!” The diamond pointed towards the horses behind the bushes.

Ucup and Jane glanced in the direction the Diamond pointed at. Smiles from both lips. 

“Come, this will save us time!” invite Ucup who then ran towards the horses were, followed by the two girls.

Ucup rode a black horse belonging to the brewok, while Diamond and Jane each rode a brown horse. Not wanting to delay any more time, the three of them immediately pulled the reins and the three horses ran quickly through the darkness of the forest.

The crackling of the horse's footsteps rang out irregularly among the shadows that seemed to be moving between the trees, and the cold touch that crept around it made the three spur even faster.

Far away running deeper in the forest that never gives peace, the three people began to feel anxiety that crept slowly in the heart. A gust of wind whispered in a heart-wrenching voice, as if trying to give a warning of the dangers lurking among the trees. 

“Lord Ucup, beware!” said Prince Xiao Li Dan who saw the existence of some people who were lurking behind the big trees.

“Thank you, Brother,” said Ucup with a cool grin.

The atmosphere of the forest became increasingly gripping, and the lurking threat felt more and more real. A few people lurking flashed amidst the tight trees, invisible but so close. Their eyes flashed with malicious intent, and each step they took produced a hiss that crept within the silent forest. 

“Kak Ucup, does Big Brother feel it?” said the Diamond that snaps his horse to the right of the horse riding Ucup.

“Yes, there are some uninvited guests following us. Stay calm and alert!” utup revealed.

The diamond then approaches Jane and reminds her to be alert. Jane nodded in understanding and instantly raised her vigilance.

A huge fireball suddenly struck towards Ucup from the direction of the right side. Ucup then flicked his hand to dispel the fireball without even turning his head towards the thrower.

Duars! 

A tree immediately fell on fire. 

“Sister Lian, cover your face with a cloth! I don't want the fight to be distracted by your beauty,” pinta Ucup.

“Good, Brother,” sahut Diamond who directly covered his face with a piece of cloth.

“Consider your fight, Brother Lian!” Ucup turned his horse leaving the Diamond which would face the scouts.

The diamond then approached Jane who looked confused. 

“Do you want to come fight with me or wait for me to finish the fight?” tanya Diamond gives you a choice.

“Well if you have made your choice …. Get ready!” hissing Diamond which now looks like a veiled swordsman.

Shortly after, a huge fireball shot towards Jane. Before she was warned by Diamond, Jane herself had caught a roaring hot swish at her. Instantly, he jumped off the horse's back and landed rolling on the ground. While his horse neighed violently and died instantly after being hit by a fireball that mercilessly burned his body.

“Damn it!” the upset.

Not far from Jane's position, Diamond was on standby by taking the sword from his spatial ring. His two eyes seemed so focused on observing the movements of those sects who still had not appeared.

“Get out of you all! Show yourself and don't be a coward hiding behind a tree!” snapped Jane hard.

“Ha-ha-ha!” 

There was a sound of laughter that was very loud, until it exhaled the hot air that hit the two girls.

“Secretly you have killed our three comrades. Amazing!” praise someone whose voice is so echoing.

“They deserved to die, but it wasn't me who killed her,” Jane snorted back.

“Ha-ha-ha!”

The sound of laughter echoed in the air. However, not yet the echoes of laughter disappeared, there was a loud pitched sound in the air, then came a large tall body figure that bounces from behind a tree.

The two girls increased their vigilance, staring at one large tall figure dressed in black glittering like satin. The face of the figure was very creepy. His hair was curly, with a snub nose but both holes big. His ears are pointed like bat ears. And most terrifyingly, from all over his body was emitting such a stinging heat.

“Dih, so ugly are you!” jane's teasing comments on the creepy guy's appearance.

“Who are you, huh?!” his question was full of anger.

His anger peaked as he recalled the death of his family from the darkness sect people.  

The hideous figure was again blown away, laughing at the girl whom he thought was just a little toy. He then turned his gaze towards the girl in a white dress whose face was covered in a bright cloth.

“You look like a person from the Sun Continent. As far as I know, girls from there have a beauty like a goddess of heaven, reddish white, and certainly very exciting, but ...,” he said with a perverted look, “ too noisy when making love.”

Diamond snorted cynically, yet he did not show it. From a distance, Ucup seemed so calm watching the efforts of the creepy man who was scaring the two girls.

“Lord Ucup, the man is a god nature cultivator. He is in the Immortal Crystal realm,” Prince Xiao Li Dan said after scanning him.

“It was good to improve the fighting ability of Diamond,” Ucup said looking excited to know about it.

“Isn't that too difficult for him?” Prince Xiao Li Dan doubted the Diamond's ability.

“Isn't there me here who will help him if pressed?” ask around Ucup.

Returning to the position of Jane who began to worry about the figure of the man she will face. But he tried to stay calm in dealing with it.

“Two crocodile holes that will cheer me up at any time,” said the man with a disgusting grin.

The two girls frowned hearing it. They realized that they were the ones the creepy guy meant. And simultaneously, the rage of the two went up. Jane quickly pulled out her short sword tucked in the waist. 

“Stop babbling, Lucky Crocodile!” jane's unacceptable snort was verbally abused.

“Then from that, I call you ‘hole crocodile’. I'm a crocodile and you're both holes,” taunts the guy while grinning.

“You!” upset the two girls together.